Chemical shift encoded water–fat separation using parallel imaging and compressed sensing

Chemical shift encoded techniques have received considerable attention recently because they can reliably separate water and fat in the presence of off‐resonance. The insensitivity to off‐resonance requires that data be acquired at multiple echo times, which increases the scan time as compared to a single echo acquisition. The increased scan time often requires that a compromise be made between the spatial resolution, the volume coverage, and the tolerance to artifacts from subject motion. This work describes a combined parallel imaging and compressed sensing approach for accelerated water–fat separation. In addition, the use of multiscale cubic B‐splines for B0 field map estimation is introduced. The water and fat images and the B0 field map are estimated via an alternating minimization. Coil sensitivity information is derived from a calculated k‐space convolution kernel and l1‐regularization is imposed on the coil‐combined water and fat image estimates. Uniform water–fat separation is demonstrated from retrospectively undersampled data in the liver, brachial plexus, ankle, and knee as well as from a prospectively undersampled acquisition of the knee at 8.6x acceleration. Magn Reson Med, 2013. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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